--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "davezeltserman" <Dave.Zeltserman@> wrote:
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> > Mark, I got The Taste for Ashes and Halo of Brass. You've got me more motivated to push them to the top of my TBR.
> >
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> A Taste for Ashes is remarkable, one of the best PI novels I have ever read. It is the great work of Howard Browne. The other novels are good, but this one is also original, not a Chandler imitation. The Browne short stories are also excellent, as is his late historical novel Pork City (1988) about Al Capone and other boys in Chicago.
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OK, we both mangled the title. It's "The Taste of Ashes"...
mrt
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